1th of September, Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates of integrating “LGBTIQ Catholics” into the Church and encouraged his ministry ahead of the planned Holy Year “LGBTIQ Catholic” pilgrimage to the Vatican.
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Unfortunately, this time we did not hear a clear teaching from His Holiness Leo XIV regarding the sin of Sodom, which Scripture describes as “crying out to Heaven for vengeance.” His Holiness appears to follow the thinking of his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, echoing in his heart the words: “Who am I to judge?”
In light of this, today we recall with greater insistence the eternal truth of the Church’s teaching in this area.
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The Catholic Church’s traditional teaching on the sin of sodomy
From its very beginning, the Catholic Church has regarded sodomy as a grave sin, contrary to natural law and God’s plan for humanity. Biblical sources such as the account of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18–19) and St. Paul’s words – “Men abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another; men committed shameful acts with other men” (Rom 1:27) – laid the foundation for later theological tradition.
St. Augustine considered homosexual acts particularly abhorrent: “These acts, if they can even be called acts, are not only sins but crimes so unnatural that they must be condemned with the utmost severity” (City of God, XIV, 23). St. John Chrysostom, commenting on the Epistle to the Romans, wrote: “There is nothing worse than this vice; nature itself turns away in disgust.”
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Medieval scholasticism systematized this teaching with precision. St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica classified sodomy among the sins contra naturam: “There are sins which are especially against human nature, such as a man having relations with a man or with an animal; these are graver than adultery, because they are against the very order of nature” (II–II, q.154, a.12). St. Peter Damian, in his Liber Gomorrhianus written to Pope Leo IX, declared: “This foul corruption is a poison that infects the blood, extinguishes the light of reason, opens hell and closes the gates of heaven.”
The popes repeatedly addressed this matter. Most forcefully, Pope St. Pius V in the constitution Horrendum illud scelus (1568) stated: “This terrible and abominable crime, through which the wrath of God falls upon the sons of disobedience, cannot be tolerated without punishment. We therefore command that offenders be punished according to canon law, and if they are clerics, that they also be handed over to the secular authorities.”
In the 19th century, amid social change and attempts at moral liberalization, the popes often emphasized the indissolubility of marriage and the subordination of the sexual act to the purpose of procreation. Leo XIII in the encyclical Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae (1880) wrote: “Marriage was established by God so that mankind might be preserved and increased, and its indissolubility and sanctity protect society from collapse.” In this context, any practice contrary to the purpose of marriage, including sodomy, was considered a serious violation of natural law.
Pope Pius IX, condemning moral relativism in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), stressed that the Church has the inalienable right to judge matters of morality. Thus acts of sodomy could never be regarded as morally neutral, since – as the pope taught – “it is not permissible to accept that freedom of conscience is the right of every man” (Syllabus, error no. 15).
Leo XIII further developed this thought in the encyclical Libertas praestantissimum (1888): “Freedom detached from truth leads to ruin; true freedom is the ability to do good, in accordance with God’s and nature’s law.” From this it followed that behaviors contrary to nature are not expressions of freedom but its distortion.
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Pius XI, in the encyclical Casti connubii (1930), articulated the most mature modern formulation of the Church’s position: “Each and every marital act must remain open to the transmission of life. Whoever uses it otherwise acts against both the law of God and of nature.” This rule encompassed all sexual practices cut off from procreation, including sodomy.
Aleksandras Stralcou
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